[Night Hides Not]

A bit off topic, but you reminded me of a temporary assignment from 40+ years ago. I was the XO of a 40 man support unit at a German AA range near Kiel. We did not have a single disciplinary issue that summer, and it had nothing to do with my superb leadership.

A few miles off post was a small town that came to life during the summer. As the only Americans for 200 miles, we were the oddities. I have never seen a more concentrated group of newly divorced women, and they fell in love with my soldiers.

I made so many friends that summer, I’d make the 400 mile drive during long weekends my last two years in Germany. That summer exponentially improved my German, too.

[entropy12]

I can imagine with so many German men soldiers killed in WWII, American soldiers had to be in great demand.